truck driver

fleet manager

local driver

shuttle driver

Sharkey Transportation, Inc.

What is the best part of working at the company?
At the time, I was living in STL area, and was able to get home weekly. They are focused on the Midwest. It's a small company and I enjoyed working with the people there.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Their trailers were old and archaic. They really needed to upgrade, but instead they ran old equipment in need of constant maintenance. It was not unusual to look in your rear view mirror and realize that your trailer was badly in need of an alignment.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It was easy to communicate with the people you needed to, when you needed to.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Get an assignment. Take off to pick up load. Drop it. Lots of drop and hooks.

It wasn't a terrible job. Lazy type of work. I mean you'll bust your butt. Though all the worries of going across the scale, DOT pulling you over, etc. That's all gone. Only for what I did. You had to deal with nonsensical things that were instructed by someone. Even though you're in a huge truck outside their window. Otherwise yeah it wasn't terrible. I want to say weekends off was a pro, but the advertising was deceptive. So it was good except when they'd decide no you have to work the weekends. Which wasn't a lot, but it could interrupt your life.

I have been in transportation for 31 years and have been at Sharkey for the past 11 years. I came here after the business I drove for closed and filed bankruptcy. I took my time looking at many companies before coming to work here. Having 20 years of experience with awards including America’s Road Team nominee (twice) and several industry and  company specific awards, I could have gone anywhere. I signed on with Sharkey because they didn’t promise me the moon... they promised me a job with a stable company with competitive pay and company paid insurance. That’s why I signed on and that’s why I’m still here.

The work was interesting and no 2 days were the same. I learned a lot of new things, which meant I had my plate full, however, as I took on more work, I was not compensated  more. The days were long, though and was always hard to take time off. There seemed to always be a lack of communication, and also had to deal with some bullies, which made the culture in my office rather difficult to bear at times. Also, there was not any praise or recognition for job well done.

What is the best part of working at the company?
They fired me for using mg pto to go to an interview trying to get a better paying job bc my girl is 2 moths from having a baby easy job just pathetic people

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Horrible management companies been going down the drain its called the “sharkey way”

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Its fine lots of google translate 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Spray out trailers clean pit easy money

Management sucks. It's all about the customers and screw your drivers. Cant keep drivers because the work is horrible. Trucks are junk and 80% of the trailers just need to be scraped. Floors are junk, doors are junk, tandems wont slide, lights dont work, Dot stickers expired ALL THE TIME. you can write a trailer up.but itll never get fixed because other drivers will take them even if they are flagged out of service. Health insurance is free but it doesn't cover much.

Good miles stable work environment only thing that sucks is long time out to achieve the highest pay scale insurance sucks but it’s free they need to replace all there older trucks out they run them to million plus but your in for service every 10000 miles so that’s really good but you usually lose a whole day doing that sitting in there room of death probably still 1970 orange lol

Good company to work for.  I rarely ever sat.  They got me home when they said they would.  My only real complaint was the insurance.  While there was no weekly premiums, they didn't cover everything, and they made us pay the bill for an emergency room visit out of state because it was out of network.  That is why I left.

Dispatchers were very good to work with, though.  Very much an open door policy.

Great work environment with open communication from all branches throughout the chain of commands.  

Organized flow of management both through drivers as well as internal positions.  

Most enjoyable part of working for the company was the ability to manage a fleet of determined hard working drivers.

The hardest part of the job was staying stimulated as the position was very monotonous with a lot of down time.

Out of all the truck driving jobs I had (before my untimely early retirement in 2013, I worked for Sharkey Transportation the longest (2007-2009).

Were I still able to drive... i would be working for Jack Sharkey.

I got what I wanted as far as miles went and I got time off when I needed it. Like any job; you get out of it what you put in to it.

I'm glad to see they're still trucking.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Truck driver 483 salaries reported	$1,565 per week
Fleet manager 2 salaries reported	$48,000 per year
Local driver 6 salaries reported	$24.08 per hour
Shuttle driver 2 salaries reported	$20.25 per hour
Otr 5 salaries reported	$1,520 per week

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